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Gilead, Tal – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2012
Over the last few decades, the idea that education should function to promote economic progress has played a major role in shaping educational policy. So far, however, philosophers of education have shown relatively little interest in analysing this notion and its implications. The present article critically examines, from a philosophical…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Human Capital, Educational Policy, Educational Theories
Sumner, Jennifer – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2008
The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development signals an unparalleled opportunity to link education with sustainability. But in the age of corporate globalization, will education bow to the external pressures that have always sought to subordinate it to vested interests, or will it reach beyond these narrow confines to the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Sustainable Development, Role of Education, Moral Values
Cassell, John A.; Nelson, Thomas – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2010
This article discusses the contributions to this special issue of "Teacher Education Quarterly." At the core of all the contributions is the compellingly urgent realization that humanity is facing, and must deal with, enormous ecological and social problems and challenges. This situation has created an urgent and compelling need centered…
Descriptors: Social Problems, World Views, Western Civilization, Environmental Education
Tamatea, Laurence – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2005
The paper's focus is "The Dakar framework for action--education for all: meeting our collective commitments", which presents the UNESCO, G8, World Bank and International Monetary Fund's blueprint for the "development" of education globally by 2015. Taking a discourse analytic approach, discussion of the "Dakar framework" make two claims. The first…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Global Approach, Educational Development, International Organizations
Prakash, Madhu Suri; Esteva, Gustavo – 1998
This book challenges the modern certainty that education is a universal good and a human right and celebrates the well-being still enjoyed in the commons and cultures of people living at the grassroots. The first section describes how education is an instrument of acculturation. Within two generations of formal schooling, people are separated from…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, Colonialism, Cultural Maintenance